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Premium Member What Sends Them Harvard Poets
For Langston Hughes

What sends them Harvard poets
I just couldn't do it, Sir: 
What sends them Harvard poets
I just couldn't do it, Sir:
They'll never give me a Pulitzer.

What tickles them Yale poets
Just leaves me sad an' a grievin':
What tickles them Yale poets
Leaves me sad an' a...

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Categories: harvard, america, discrimination, judgement, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Caleb, 1665 Graduate of Harvard Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck
Man stands high – in Creation - but higher yet she wants to stand!
Before Columbus, trees stood like Sentries, minding communications;
Once these lands were taken, WE hear much of “Supply & Demand,” 

Nations weep: gone the Three Sisters and B. Bison from this land
Gone, too,...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harvard, allusion, america, angst, beauty,
Form: Villanelle
Harvard
a word the pain soothing
wining the morning air I feel cool in dark
a lore, an ancurseing heart ,today
a rummskiled to the fact that noone likes me
all are perdundently foolish
while mook of the death upon it's end
or shall i live agian...

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Categories: harvard, forgiveness, friendship, sympathy, time,
Form: Ballade

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



High Noon At Harvard Yard
Tis the late June day
Which bring flocks
Their subconscious intentions
Obfuscated by the lingering dimensions
Flaccid ideals and breezes
Traversing gingerly through
The ancient elms
Seeded by the pulps of history
They pray, with each scrape
Of their prescient footsteps
For the sparkle, the brilliance
Those ghostly matters provide in perpetuity
The heat emanating from yearnings
Executed...

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Categories: harvard, appreciation, education, eulogy, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Mr. Harvard
Mr. Harvard

He stood there
With wide open eyes.
Mr. Harvard,
King of the skies.

We fell in love
And created hell.
All the games we played.
All the times we'd yell.

But none of them know-
Note Yale, Princeton, or Brown.
About our secret affair-
Our night on the town.
No. None will ever know
How we really...

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Categories: harvard, fantasy, girlfriend-boyfriend, love,
Form: Free verse
Harvard Night Introspect (Walls Vs. Bridges)
Harvard, at night - You still sit on the lawn
with the weight of both structures alive in your arms
Rachmaninoff's tears turning black at your hips
The counting of friends on your five finger tips

Sawdust and poetry, building the wall
A thousand feet wide, a thousand feet tall
Running...

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Categories: harvard, friendship, happiness, introspection, life,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Harvard, Academia's Barnyard
  Good to know that we can be sure that Ms. Claudine Gay
  Harvard's newest president was thoroughly vetted, 'the Harvard way'

    She's good with Harvard's policy that using the wrong pronoun is abuse
    But 'context is...

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Categories: harvard, confusion, education, hate, irony,
Form: Clerihew
Advice To Harvard Applicants
Advice to Harvard Students.

if you pour boiling oil
on your babies head
wait until the oil price has gone down.

if you undress in a public toilet
you may meet Piers Morgan
or the police may join in.

if you steal a computer
you'll have to take it back in the morning
for...

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© Alan Ford  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harvard, america,
Form: Free verse
Harvard
Harvard, M.I.T, Cambridge, Yale
Which career path did you choose?
Does your gift give or take
I would the to be smart it’s the most 
Prized possession of the dark arts...

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Categories: harvard, education,
Form: Free verse
Harvard
HARVARD!
  -Dharga Nagar Safa

Harvard a knowledge mine,

Dig,

Deep!...

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Categories: harvard, education,
Form: Verse
Premium Member congresswoman Stefanic interrogates president Gay of Harvard
Shall college presidents resign
When the House says words cross the line?
What should we say next
If free speech lacks context?
"Stefanik is asinine!"...

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Categories: harvard, discrimination, humor, integrity, language,
Form: Limerick
Vanishing Act
Remember when we believed a NYC street block was too far? 50th, 51st, 52nd, and so on... well, state boundaries stack those blocks, and now there are thousands, maybe millions, blocking. 
My preschool days taught me how to stack the reds, the blues, and the...

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Categories: harvard, betrayal, romance,
Form: Free verse
Sluggard
Why expect a lot from A sluggard:
A trim look, not seeming haggard
And easy win of high regard?
You'd make much of A sluggard
A Great story from Great Harvard
Upon him wait with a staunch guard
And the often - praised by A Bard...

Then, you never knew A sluggard:
From...

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Categories: harvard, allusion, change, character, people,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things